If you think paying for bug fixes is bad, you haven't seen anything, yet. There were articles during the trial which revealed that MS's plan is to try to move Windoze licensing to a subscription based model. Since too many people refuse to buy upgrades, the solution is to make them pay more than once for the same software by having the license expire.
This is merely a first attempt at moving toward that goal.
I wonder why MS keeps insisting on diggging holes for itself. I know, they can't afford the anti-trust case against them anymore, they have to:). Or else Bill should have to dig in his pockets, but that hurts.
Ah, what a wonderful world it could be...at least if the world would be running on Linux.
I think we're all pretty much sci-fi fans here. I myself really like near future sci-fi.
I just read the story and I think it's a great fiction in the guise of an April 1st article. It's great how it's based in the current day and how the author used the name Microsoft... I'd count it among the best sci-fi I've read (not that I have time for books anymore).
Of course it's scary contemplating such a reality...
They do it again, after the first 10/100 ethernet switch they come again with the first Linux-based switch router - WOH. I think it is extremely great to have a Linux-based router building by a networking company. I am sure they (Nbase-Xyplex) have all the features in their product since I used their (Nbase-Xyplex) Fiber optic & Switches and they have all the features you just dream about in their products and they are always preceding the market. I think that Linux-based router with a so many features, a high performance and so scalable switch router is a innovation to our ISPs community. So I think it is a good idea to keep eyes and to say thanks to Nbase-Xyplex for given us the ability to role our world with an Open router.
I think it is extremely great to have a Linux based router building by a big networking company. I am sure they have BGP in their product since I used their (Nbase-Xyplex) fiber optic & Switches. They have all the features you just dream about in their product and it works just astonishing. Thus I am sure they will have BGP-4, POS and WDM in their Linux-based router. I think that Linux-based router with a lot of features, an high performance and so scalable is a innovation to our ISPs community. So I think the idea to keep eyes on this product and watch it is right on place.
This letter goes directly to a source used in the article. This letter is directly on point. It clarifies one of the central questions about the MSNBC article: "Where did this information come from?" And it gets a score of 2, just a hair above some AC posts?
----------------------------- Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
I wasn't sure about its NATO status. I just knew it was fought with NATO weapons on both sides, making for interesting military history.
The details of the war are a little foggy, I havent thought of it in many years. and is not a particularly relevant thread, but thanks for the correction
or at least, he has yet to prove that he is anything other than a lucky market drone. where is any code that he's hacked? I'll tell you where- hidden from everyone because he is too embaressed.
I remember about a year ago it was done with a guitar. They would play it by microwave resonance. Couldn't do much with one string tho, except your favorite Green Day song maybe;)
I was wondering why my posts were defaulting so high today. I thought they were good posts, but certainly not Pulitzer material. Now I know.
This isn't necessarily a bad system, but I think this should be the last tweak for a while. An allegorical story, if you'll permit me:
I had a friend who wrote his own role-playing system, did the points up and the skills and dice rolls and all that math stuff. It ended up being way too complex to play smoothly. Just finding out who walked away alive from a single battle took all day. The system barely survived one session before all his notes were thrown in to the fire. Literally.
I cannot help but wonder if Slashdot might eventually fall to that same phenomenon, where the bells and whistles not only drown out the static, but the pure sound as well.
That's not to say that CmdrTaco and his crew haven't done a superb job thus far. They have, and I for one am thankful for the great resource they've provided. But perhaps they should let this settle a while and see how things play out before tweaking any further.
It is crap. I can't remember what it actually referred to, but it wasn't general brain function. (It's also several decades old, so I wouldn't bet on it being correct for anything.)
(Neurons that aren't utilized tend to die as part of the brain's optimizations. AFAIK I'm not missing 90% of my brain (of course I don't check it all that often).)
I don't see people running out to buy a lot of these appliances. Sure, there's a niche for WebTV and perhaps an e-mail appliance, especially among the older generations unfamiliar with computers.
But I have to say, I think a networked home, with a server, a couple of workstations and a liberal assortment of thin clients, isn't beyond the realm of possibility. We're seeing it now with centralized, computerized climate controls and all-in-one entertainment centers. Give it a decade, maybe, and we'll start to see total solutions based on a home server or high-end PC.
But again, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Take a look at the anime section of wm.themes.org. Note that the second Dirty Pair Flash theme(with a background of the Pair in compromising positions) is beating out almost every other theme by 2/3rds.. Confirms some speculations I have about certain users..
Cracker? What the hell did he crack? What hell did he vadalize? What the hell are you talking about? Sure he *is* a criminal according to federal law, but does he deserve to be imprissoned for this long? I think not. He has more than payed his time, let'm go.
I agree with: "Creating a virus is an art. It is no different than the kid of your generation who took the radio apart just to put it back together again, even if some parts were left out. It is a natural instinct in humans to figure out how things work. "
But I disagree with: "If you create a virus in order to show explicitly the obnoxious security holes in Microsoft or other OSs, you are doing the general public a service."
Saying that is like saying that vandals do the general public a service by underscoring the need for everyone to have security!
You may not be a thief if you do not make money from it - but you are in essence a vandal and a criminal.
Well, yeah. With a free OS, of course they're going to charge big bucks for support. But when you consider the high price of licenses for a Windows NT system, most bean counters will still look at Red Hat as a huge bargain. And most MIS administrators worth their title will probably either a) have a Linux hacker on staff, or b) just scroll through the newsgroups until he finds the solution to his problem.
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Posted by idisasm:
If you think paying for bug fixes is bad, you haven't seen anything, yet. There were articles during the trial which revealed that MS's plan is to try to move Windoze licensing to a subscription based model. Since too many people refuse to buy upgrades, the solution is to make them pay more than once for the same software by having the license expire.
This is merely a first attempt at moving toward that goal.
--
Don't fear the penguin.
Developers don't want to read news, they want code. I didn't find a site I liked, so I created yet another open source site:
Links to more than 3000 applications, libraries, functions, faqs, etc.
Don't bother checking every 5 minutes for news. But if you want code. It's there.
Posted by JoeyRamone:
Well they've paid for Hotmail and that's still running on a Unix-based system. It makes you wonder, nah.
Posted by JoeyRamone:
:). Or else Bill should have to dig in his pockets, but that hurts.
I wonder why MS keeps insisting on diggging holes for itself. I know, they can't afford the anti-trust case against them anymore, they have to
Ah, what a wonderful world it could be...at least if the world would be running on Linux.
Posted by JoeyRamone:
:) )).
:). Yeah... then we could gamble
It has to be Raul, nah. It realy is super-cool (to be honest it's the coolest logo I've yet seen in the Linux-world (sorry everybody else
A pole would be oke, I think, so we know ahead who'll win
Posted by A.W.O.L.:
I think we're all pretty much sci-fi fans here. I myself really like near future sci-fi.
I just read the story and I think it's a great fiction in the guise of an April 1st article. It's great how it's based in the current day and how the author used the name Microsoft... I'd count it among the best sci-fi I've read (not that I have time for books anymore).
Of course it's scary contemplating such a reality...
Posted by The hacker:
They do it again, after the first 10/100 ethernet switch they come again with the first Linux-based switch router - WOH.
I think it is extremely great to have a Linux-based router building by a networking company.
I am sure they (Nbase-Xyplex) have all the features in their product since I used their (Nbase-Xyplex) Fiber optic & Switches and they have all the features you just dream about in their products and they are always preceding the market.
I think that Linux-based router with a so many features, a high performance and so scalable switch router is a innovation to our ISPs community. So I think it is a good idea to keep eyes and to say thanks to Nbase-Xyplex for given us the ability to role our world with an Open router.
Posted by The hacker:
I think it is extremely great to have a Linux based router building by a big networking company.
I am sure they have BGP in their product since I used their (Nbase-Xyplex) fiber optic & Switches. They have all the features you just dream about in their product and it works just astonishing. Thus I am sure they will have BGP-4, POS and WDM in their Linux-based router.
I think that Linux-based router with a lot of features, an high performance and so scalable is a innovation to our ISPs community. So I think the idea to keep eyes on this product and watch it is right on place.
Posted by !ErrorBookmarkNotDefined:
This letter goes directly to a source used in the article. This letter is directly on point. It clarifies one of the central questions about the MSNBC article: "Where did this information come from?"
And it gets a score of 2, just a hair above some AC posts?
-----------------------------
Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:
I stand corrected.
I wasn't sure about its NATO status. I just knew it was fought with NATO weapons on both sides, making for interesting military history.
The details of the war are a little foggy, I havent thought of it in many years. and is not a particularly relevant thread, but thanks for the correction
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
or at least, he has yet to prove that he is anything other than a lucky market drone. where is any code that he's hacked? I'll tell you where- hidden from everyone because he is too embaressed.
Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:
;)
I remember about a year ago it was done with a guitar. They would play it by microwave resonance. Couldn't do much with one string tho, except your favorite Green Day song maybe
Posted by Mike@ABC:
I was wondering why my posts were defaulting so high today. I thought they were good posts, but certainly not Pulitzer material. Now I know.
This isn't necessarily a bad system, but I think this should be the last tweak for a while. An allegorical story, if you'll permit me:
I had a friend who wrote his own role-playing system, did the points up and the skills and dice rolls and all that math stuff. It ended up being way too complex to play smoothly. Just finding out who walked away alive from a single battle took all day. The system barely survived one session before all his notes were thrown in to the fire. Literally.
I cannot help but wonder if Slashdot might eventually fall to that same phenomenon, where the bells and whistles not only drown out the static, but the pure sound as well.
That's not to say that CmdrTaco and his crew haven't done a superb job thus far. They have, and I for one am thankful for the great resource they've provided. But perhaps they should let this settle a while and see how things play out before tweaking any further.
And that's all I have to say.
Posted by jclanfear:
It is crap. I can't remember what it actually referred to, but it wasn't general brain function.
(It's also several decades old, so I wouldn't bet on it being correct for anything.)
(Neurons that aren't utilized tend to die as part of the brain's optimizations. AFAIK I'm not missing 90% of my brain (of course I don't check it all that often).)
Posted by Mike@ABC:
I don't see people running out to buy a lot of these appliances. Sure, there's a niche for WebTV and perhaps an e-mail appliance, especially among the older generations unfamiliar with computers.
But I have to say, I think a networked home, with a server, a couple of workstations and a liberal assortment of thin clients, isn't beyond the realm of possibility. We're seeing it now with centralized, computerized climate controls and all-in-one entertainment centers. Give it a decade, maybe, and we'll start to see total solutions based on a home server or high-end PC.
But again, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Posted by NJViking:
Heh.. yeah, if you aren't careful.
It'll blow up into a giant blueberry just like in Willy Wonka.
NJV
Posted by F.A.N.G.:
They had a 13 year-old named Corky working 9 hour days to design the last UI.
Posted by Scott Francis[Mechaman]:
Take a look at the anime section of wm.themes.org. Note that the second Dirty Pair Flash theme(with a background of the Pair in compromising positions) is beating out almost every other theme by 2/3rds..
Confirms some speculations I have about certain users..
Posted by Art Pepper:
Agreed. That was one the most pathetic "interviews" I have seen in quite a while.
Posted by byte_me:
Cracker? What the hell did he crack? What hell did he vadalize? What the hell are you talking about? Sure he *is* a criminal according to federal law, but does he deserve to be imprissoned for this long? I think not. He has more than payed his time, let'm go.
Posted by BrianDaMac:
How can something like this get a score of 3?
Posted by HolyMackeralAndy:
I would expect a lot more for "several evenings of conversation".
Posted by LordPraetor:
Like a graphical interface? (X)
Nuff said
Posted by wadageek:
I agree with:
"Creating a virus is an art. It is no different than the kid of your generation who took the radio apart just to put it back together again, even if some parts were left out. It is a natural instinct in humans to figure out how things work. "
But I disagree with:
"If you create a virus in order to show explicitly the obnoxious security holes in Microsoft or other OSs, you are doing the general public a service."
Saying that is like saying that vandals do the general public a service by underscoring the need for everyone to have security!
You may not be a thief if you do not make money from it - but you are in essence a vandal and a criminal.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Well, yeah. With a free OS, of course they're going to charge big bucks for support. But when you consider the high price of licenses for a Windows NT system, most bean counters will still look at Red Hat as a huge bargain. And most MIS administrators worth their title will probably either a) have a Linux hacker on staff, or b) just scroll through the newsgroups until he finds the solution to his problem.